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Kuiama

From the Album: Electric Light Orchestra Ii |

This version of Kuiama was released by Electric Light Orchestra (Elo) in 1972.

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My My Kuiama, she came in the morning
she smiled but the tears on her little face
showed the pain that had been in that far off place
so sad, treated so bad

My My Kuiama, don’t break your heart tryin
to say how your ma and your pa passed away
and they left you to wander the ruin and decay
real mean, that bullet machine

See here Kuiama, now ten thousand miles
is a long long way and you’re here today
and you won’t go back so you might say
hello, how do you do

Kuia stop your cryin, there’s no bombs a’fallin
no horsemen in the night a’ridin through your dreams and tearing at your life
baby goodnight

No more silver rain will hit your ground
and no more guns will sound
and no more life be drowned
No more trenches where the soldiers lie
and no more people die
beneath that big black sky

Wake up Kuiama, I got somethin to tell you
it’s just that I mean, well that is to say,
that I’m trying to explain but I’ll start again,
for you, I must be true.

Kuia in this country, they got rules with no reason
they teach you to kill and they send you away
with your gun in your hand, you pick up your pay
so cool, that no mercy tool

Kuia please believe me? I just couldn’t help myself.
I wanted to run but they gave me a gun
and they told me the duty I owed to my Fatherland.
I made my stand.

Kuia I just shot them, I just blew their heads open,
and I heard them scream in their agony
Kuiama she waits there for me
True blue, you saw it through.


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When you decide to study the lyrics to Kuiama, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1972 song by Electric Light Orchestra (Elo). Some of the lyrics to Kuiama have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Electric Light Orchestra (Elo) and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Kuiama if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Kuiama" means the words set to the music of Kuiama, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Electric Light Orchestra (Elo). The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Kuiama and the lyrics to Kuiama are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Electric Light Orchestra (Elo) who came here looking just for the lyrics to Kuiama, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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